Savita: The Tragedy that shook a nation
Seventeen weeks pregnant and facing a miscarriage, Savita Halappanavar and her husband Praveen walked into an Irish maternity ward in October 2012. Unwittingly, the couple also walked into that deeply controversial arena in which Ireland’s legislative position on abortion remained unresolved.
A week later, Savita was dead from septicaemia. Reports of her death and of the refusal to allow Savita a t...
Seventeen weeks pregnant and facing a miscarriage, Savita Halappanavar and her husband Praveen walked into an Irish maternity ward in October 2012. Unwittingly, the couple also walked into that deeply controversial arena in which Ireland’s legislative position on abortion remained unresolved.
A week later, Savita was dead from septicaemia. Reports of her death and of the refusal to allow Savita a t...
